This is a lesson plan created as part of the Library Lockers project to guide teacher librarians through creating lesson plans that contain all the necessary components for teacher and student success. Students will study Greek Mythology and create their own characters. 

This is an activity created as part of the Library Lockers project to guide teacher librarians through creating lesson plans that contain all the necessary components for teacher and student success. Students will studey Greek Mythology and create their own figure.

Getting students to connect with literature or history can be challenging, but if you have immersive hands-on activities designed to content standards, students will beg to dig deeper. This "Library Locker" will foster deep critical thinking while offering fun standards based learning opportunity designed with unit outcomes in mind.  Students love these and teachers do too, the ability to make learning with artifacts, literature, collaboration and writing all happen at once gives teachers a way to leverage this type of learning to its fullest extent.

This lesson will share the 1938 broadcast of The War of the Worlds with Orson Welles.  Students will also see artifacts from the 1930's era and be able to compare and contrast with present styles.